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Short sentences are a set of time-out, inept in itself. But long sentences are appropriate playoffs penalties as such by the law and society: we "cut the gangrenous limb" is "hard weed" is "conducting rodent control," so delicate euphemisms to express the will collective disposal, murder. | |||
If we listened to the crowd, many of those being sent to prison would be burnt on grills, skinned alive before being quartered. We do not have to deal with barbarism. We do not pactisons with those who have the taste of suffering and death in trading over the medium term would be imprisonment. Because we love life. (When we love most, we still believe enough to leave voluntarily.) | |||
We will not let anyone talk of beings "recoverable" or "sunk"; the world is this junk discharge for the filthy minds. | |||
At best, we exclude the idea of opinion (s) State (s); at worst, we affirm that the own public opinion is supposed to be manipulated by those to whom it benefits. As for us, we do not despair of seeing individuals to join our positions when they are made up their own minds on the issue. | |||
Playing the game of an absurd split between guilty and innocent, justice, the practice of imprisonment, we saw two and allowed us to search our unit; strengthening the most rigid standards mental structures, it makes us mechanical agents. We do not tolerate the company under its judicial avatar, we cornered well with dementia and take pretext to exert "naturally" guardianship over us. | |||
We do not like the convicts because they are convicts. The convicts are more friendly as like women, Jews, children or writers. But we love some people who also, among other features, to be writers or Jews or women or children or convicts. | |||
We can not bear to be locked. Neither inside nor outside. We, the "innocent" have no more right to enter the taules that the prisoners out. Same thing for the censorship of our mail. We do not get most newspapers written inside the dungeon, they are forbidden us. | |||
This is not "out of respect of human rights" that we refuse confinement. We do not suffer more we tie the dogs to the kennel or we put monkeys in a cage. This is not a parenthesis. | |||
We fight any alternative to prison, which would also be a confinement "outside" such as social control more refined than today. | |||
We do not pretend to know what freedom but we see quite clearly and distinctly what oppression, and what prevents us from being ourselves. | |||
We need to be relevant to each other, so we can not accept to be subject neither held hostage by any person or group whatsoever. | |||
Nous nous opposons à toute institutionnalisation de la force, qu’elle vienne des caïds de tous ordres, des maffiosi, de la famille, du peuple, des mâles, de l’État, etc. | |||
Nous ne reconnaissons à personne le droit ni de nous juger ni de juger nos actes. | |||
Nous avons tous les droits. | |||
Le Droit n’existe pas. Il est une vision pessimiste mais néanmoins fausse de ce que sont les rapports entre nous. Il est sans aucun intérêt d’interdire par exemple le viol, mais hautement intéressant au contraire d’imaginer comment éviter d’être violeur ou violé. | |||
Le crime en soi n’existe pas ; si l’on prend au hasard un acte cauchemardesque et révoltant (comme un employeur qui me vole mon temps, ma vie), nous ne dirons pas qu’il faut éliminer le criminel mais que chacun a intérêt à renverser les choses, à comprendre ce qui se passe et à résister à la force. Rien ne s’oppose d’ailleurs à ce que des gens qui mutuellement s’apprécient ne réfléchissent ensemble aux moyens de se garder de toute atteinte à leur intégrité mentale ou physique. | |||
Nous ne sommes pas complices des tribunaux qui condamnent en notre nom. Il s’agit là d’une usurpation qui est une fois de plus un coup d’État. | |||
Cela ne saurait nous empêcher de garder chacun la possibilité d’un jugement ou d’une indignation mais la société n’a pas à se charger de nos indignations individuelles. | |||
Nous ne sommes pas de gauche. Nous ne sommes pas davantage anarchistes, ni de droite, ni des parallélépipèdes, ni n’importe quoi de ce genre. Nous sommes opportunistes si cela nous semble utile. Nous savons ce que nous voulons. | |||
Nous, abolitionnistes, sommes réalistes – si l’on veut bien par « réalistes » ne pas entendre « experts à avaler toutes les couleuvres du sordide aujourd’hui » – mais « décidés à réaliser nos idées ». | |||
Catherine Baker | |||
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